Purdy and vicious appeals to me as a fish keeper, but, collecting is my passion. i love having fish that are rare and hard to find!!! At $6 i would have bought every last Electric cat the store had. DuLL or Not!!!venwu225 said:Members of the same species vary in personality; an obvious point in this hobby. This fish
has a pretty active personality. It moves around in search of food quite frequently for
a electric cat, despite how heavy the feeding regimen is. And already at this young age, it
actively feeds from my hand, and the word gluttony certainly comes to mind.
I am a Neurobiology major, I think one of the reason why I decided to buy this fish is that these amazing animals share a interesting feature in terms of innervation
to their electromotor units. THE ENTIRE electric organ is innervated by a single giant
electromotorneuron. Really neat stuff.
Thanks for the comment everyone
Necrocanis: 36'' is correct, any idea what is the length of time that it would reach sexual
maturity and adult size?
And no offense taken, killing things and moving alot is what makes a fish cool?
I think they are pretty cool the way they are in terms of behavior and physiology.
what particularly nice was that it was a $6 buy. Practically Free
Malapterurus electricus
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venwu225 said:Here are some tank photos of the ECat's tank
Abundent plant life as bio-filtration:
These guys are great at nutrient to biomass conversion, rapid growth and reasonable lighting requirements:
What are the floating plants called?
amazonfishman said:
I don't have any pics of him. I never even thought to take any pics because at 12" he is not a monster fish (yet).
As you probably know I don't feed like crazy any of my fish. I try to get max size over time. I probably will take photos when he gets over 20". I know they get bigger but that's a level that I consider good.
What size is your pema? how old is it?
I like your selection of fish in your big tank.
You have 3 of my favorites (Rt,Pema,Tig)Good luck and start building a bigger tank
The arapaima isn't in there yet I just got the tank running 2 weeks ago and am waiting to track down most of those fish which are hard to come by unless its the right time of the year, the pima should be comming in though in a couple weeks at 4". A friend is ordering a bunch and I told him I wanted 1, right now I've just got a sun cat, marble pim catfish, and a severum. I will be upgrading tanks later on to something ridiculous huge. I would love to see some pics of the e-cat though still even at 12" and definately at 20" should you decide to take some ~Trent
~Trent
Nice e cat, gotta love that ugly face! I work at an LFS, and every once in a while we get those guys in. Once, I was unpacking the fish shipment, and there was a bag full of murky brown water and a couple of nondescript cats inside, so I did what I always did when the water in the bag is bad and I'm concerned the fish might die: after I let the temperatrure adjust, I cut open the bag over a net, and grab the net with the fish in it to prevent it from wriggling out or jumping. Of course, when I grabbed this particular fish, I got the shock of my life (literally). They were, of course, 6" or so e cats, and the shock was excruciating. My left hand was twitching all day after that. So, moral of the story, don't mess with any fish until you know what it is! And dam can those guys pack a punch!
I've been thinking about getting the electric catfish for years. The only drawbacks are that it requires a large tank, no other tankmates, and when they reach about a half-foot, they can produce up to a 400 volt shock. The electric eel can produce a 1000 volt shock and can kill people, but 400 volts should only produce a lot of pain and maybe some pants wetting.
Remember your "Rubber"...gloves that is.
Remember your "Rubber"...gloves that is.
At 6" its not even close to a 400 volt shock, I'm fairly certain a full grown adult e cat can't manage that many volts, electric eels however can. I personally never got shocked by my e cat and would say they are extremely easy to take care of and as long as your carefull you shouldn't have any problems with shocking. It can have tank mates also, I kept mine with 2 different species of synodontis catfish, the multipunctatus and the flavitaeniatus with no problems what so ever. I believe the synodontis species are all immune to the e cat shock. I would recommend one, they grow about .5"-1" a month so not that fast for a catfish and would be comfortable in a 100 gallon tank for a while probably until around 14" ~Trent
